4.1 Squadrons can be party members in dungeons

[HyoMinPark]

I'm with the others: I'd rather summon my retainer a la FFXI Trust System to fight with me as opposed to my squadron. At least he is decently geared and has a pseudo-job stone.

Plus my squadron fails missions more often than they succeed; I don't have much faith in them.

Would be interesting to see how this is implemented though.

[Shougun]

Should only be for light party content.

For stuff that's ancient that you can unsync wreck what would be the point of restricting what you find useful out of the system? At least for anything that can be solo-unsynced I don't see why the squadron can't do it either.

Unless you were meaning like to actually challenge the content, but I was I guess assuming SE wouldn't let them be capable enough to actually do current end game content with them lol.

Perhaps current leveling content though, there's a bunch of stuff they may be able to do to help the queue without killing it, or just hard cap it with timers... will be interesting if they make the AI better than the average player though lol (not on purpose, but because the bots actually use their cooldowns frequently).

Plus my squadron fails missions more often than they succeed; I don't have much faith in them.

"We're back captain.. but I'm sorry to say we couldn't get it done.. it was just too hard"
"..*hem*, the level 30 mission I sent you level 50s on? that one?"
"Yeh, lol."
"Gtfo. GET OUT! DISBAND THE PARTY!"

I feel like you could build that hitler video meme out of the event lol, with all the hands shaking to grab the glasses XD.

Just saying. The only missions squadrons should fail is the once-a-week one that you can't 100%. If you fail others, you don't understand how the system works. >_>

I understand how it works don't need to worry about it man. I once sent an imperfect team at the lower level ones just to see how it'd go (bonuses were better with the imperfect group), and it did fail. Which of course made me laugh because if you sent any combination of anything player level 50s to lower content it'd be fine.

[dragonseth07]

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Just saying. The only missions squadrons should fail is the once-a-week one that you can't 100%. If you fail others, you don't understand how the system works. >_>

[HyoMinPark]

@Shougun - lol basically. But then I'll send them on one with only 2 stats meeting the minimum and they succeed. ._.

I wonder if 4.0 will allow our squadron members to actually have job stones. I would find it kind of funny if they were all level 60 archers, gladiators, conjurers, etc.. It would be nice if you could call upon them to help with those solo instances. As long as they were more useful than the NOVs already present.

But they probably wouldn't know to move out of the pretty orange circles either so...alas. v.v

[NefarioCall]

I'd like to one day finish off floors 100-200 in deep dungeon.
I know it's technically solable, but i just haven't found the willpower to bother.
If squads can be used on that content, then i'm happy to finally do it.

[Driavna]

I'd like to one day finish off floors 100-200 in deep dungeon.
I know it's technically solable, but i just haven't found the willpower to bother.
If squads can be used on that content, then i'm happy to finally do it.

Unless SE deliver something similar to GW with their heroes it's only going to be usable in really easy content.

[kattzkitti]

I can imagine that they unlock this feature only for outdated content like they did with "undersized group".

Would be the only thing that makes sense. For those old contents that Party Finder never fills out for, you'd now have the option to just skip the hassle and bring your squadron with you. The question then becomes whether or not you'd have the option to run the content sync'd, or if it'd be forced into unsync'd (or some new thing made specifically for squadron runs even).

Hah I would image no 8 man content

You have eight squadron members, there's not really any reason you couldn't run full party content with them. I can't imagine they'd be available for the current tier of raids of course, but old tiers? Sure. Considering how much of a joke it is to run Coil unsync'd now, Alex could easily be steamrolled once at the new level 70 cap due to how simple the mechanics are in comparison.

[dragonseth07]

Use these theoretical dungeon bots to replace players that left/got kicked!

[Welsper59]

Assuming it does come to fruition that we can use them in dungeons, I just want them to be usable in older content. That is to say ARR and HW content. It'd be interesting for 4.0 content that is exceptionally old, like if it were the final patch for the expansion and you can finally use them for release dungeons, but absolutely not something to hope for.

I would hope that they'd be competent AI. Like the Trusts in FFXI, which works pretty damn well. They function better than most random players could ever dream to. I'd imagine that'd hurt some feelings though, to be compared to basic AI and it beating you in simple tasks (which I'm totally in favor of).

[Kosmos992k]

Actually, a great feature could be using these theoretical dungeon bots as replacements for players that left/got kicked.

No more 20 minutes waiting for a replacement healer!

That would be an excellent idea, especially for quiet times on servers during the pre-patch/expansion lulls.